PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Inattentional Blindness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: skakoon-sparling

Document Summary

William james= famous historic in the 19th century. He defined attention as possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of several objects or trains of thought. Dichotic listening: participants wore headphones then heard different things in the left and right ear. Attended channel: pay attention to 1 of these input. Unattended channel: ignore message in the other ear. Shadowing: to make sure participants were paying attention they are given this task. Hearing someone say the words and you must remember them and retell them. Filter: shields you from potential distractors, where desired info is let in and the undesired is let out. Fixation target: target that a person must keep focus on. Inattentional blindness: failu(cid:396)e to see (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) thi(cid:374)gs e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though the(cid:455) sta(cid:396)ed (cid:396)ight at the(cid:373), (cid:373)ight"(cid:448)e fo(cid:396)gotte(cid:374) Early selection: attended input is privileged from the start, so the unattended input receives little to 0 analysis and is never perceived.